this is your kingdom; this is your crown

Thorn’s head turned to curiously look at the stones set up in a square to mark boundaries for some apparent game.  Training game?  It sounded promising.  Training and a square with boundaries made Thorn think of fighting but he wasn’t completely sure.  Hey, it was a game either way though, right?

Thorn jogged into the square, “ok!  How do I play?  I can win at whatever game you got!” Well, that might be a bit bold when he didn’t know what the game was but who played a game if they didn’t intend to win?

Oh, shoot.  Thorn realized he had completely forgotten the number of steps he’d taken to get here.  Oh well, he’d just have to recount steps after he beat the game.  There were two favorite activities Thorn had at the moment; map-making and fighting.  Hopefully, this training was some sort of fighting game.  Shifting in place, energetically he waited for this game to start.

"Thorn Carpathius"